Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

“The love that kisses with a homicide
In robes of red generation resurrects.”
—George Barker (b. 1913)

“But with some small portion of real genius and a warm imagination, an author surely may be permitted a little to expand his wings and to wander in the aerial fields of fancy, provided ... that he soar not to such dangerous heights, from whence unplumed he may fall to the ground disgraced, if not disabled from ever rising anymore.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“I never lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)